I'm totally grateful for all recommendations but I want to download stuff so I need a manageable list :) - the Top 100 format allows lots of ILXers to get a say which is why I like its silly semi-randomness.

Anyway time to listen to some of the stuff you've all been mentioning!

Actually I'm surprised by how much of this stuff I do know, maybe I'm not as ignorant of this era as I thought, it's just I own lots of comps and tracks here and there and very few albums (but who wants albums).

I think ya'll left out 2pac on list.But guess what since ya'll ain't claiming the greatest rapper in the world I might as well take TUPAC over everybody else, the rest of the rappers are garbadge except 2pac and death row homies! THUG LIFE Biotch! wassup with not putting Tupac as #1 on the list, I bet the bitchez are the one's that made this list! Huhahahahahahahahah! Now if u women think ya'll controlling the emcee get the fuck outta the website! I don't hate u ladies it's just that u don't belong here, only my niggaz belong here baby's, gal's need to check their pussy!

As a DJ I shouldnt be giving away all my secret gems but my ego is to big to not say something.
The one and only-DJ Johnny Gunz Hoboken NJ
Gangstarr-Dwyck
NBN-OPP
NBN-Hip hop horay
Beatnuts-Watch out now
Nice & Smooth-Hip hop junkies
Nice & Smooth-Sometimes I rhyme slow
Nice & Smooth-Funky for you
RedMan-Time 4 sum aksun
Nine MM-6 Million ways to die
Craig Mack-Wooden Horse
BBD -Poison
Run DMC-Down with the king
Special Ed-The magnificent
Special Ed- I got it made
EPMD- Crossover
Chubb Rock-Treat em right
Brand Nubian-All for one
Apatche-Gangsta Bitch

what's the song called that's just a list of nouns that end in "-er" and start with "the"?

words like "the shot caller"

pleeeease someone answer this, I have been wanting to know the original since I heard it sampled in Bill Drummond and Zodiac Mindwarp's pseudonymous fake-Finnish Elvis impersonator's version of In The Ghetto on a 7" in 1997!!!

woooow no disrespect but hoooow is bone thugs n harmoney not crack the top 100 East 1999!!!, Crossroads, for the love of money, 1st of the month, days of our lives seriously need these songs in your hip hop album soN!! Notorious thugz, Biggie ft. bone thugs get wit it!!

Anybody know the name of an old rap song it sounds like the hook is "what is qb style" and some of the lyrics are "you can bring me home to dinner im not a drug user" "if i was cereal id be coo coo for cocoa puffs" "hocus pocus put me in focus" "make u bite a chip"